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Healthy Soils Program Grants – CA

June 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Healthy Soils Program Grants (HSP) Incentives Grant for farmers/Programa de Suelos Sanos – Incentivos para Agricultores Healthy soils program grants provide funds directly [...]

Small Farm Online Courses

August 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Small Farm Online Courses 2017-2018 – Registration Open Now The Cornell Small Farms Program announces open registration for its 2017-2018 season of Small Farm Online [...]

Carbon Farming and Healthy Soils Webinar

April 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coffee Talk Webinar on Carbon Farming and Healthy Soils “Digging Into Healthy Soils & Carbon Farming” Apr 27, 2017 1:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) [...]

Gardener at Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Gardener at Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado Deadline for full consideration: February 11th, 2017 See full posting and application at: [...]

Farm and Compost Internship in NYC

January 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

QBG Farm and Compost Internship, NYC Compost Project hosted by Queens Botanical Garden Queens Botanical Garden (QBG), in partnership with the Department of Sanitation of New [...]

Composting Methods to Try on the Farm

August 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

One of the most useful tools in the arsenal of farmers is composting. In addition to having environmental benefits, composting is good for the garden as well. By taking [...]

Whole Farm Workshop on Composting

May 13, 2013 // 0 Comments

Whole Farm Workshop: Farm-Scale Composting – A Means to Attaining Farm Resilience through Building Soil Fertility In East Troy, Wisconsin May 17th, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. [...]

Vermicompost is far more than a soil enhancer

March 3, 2011 // 1 Comment

University researchers are conducting studies using the earthworm compost Worm Power, which has been shown to be effective in suppressing the common crop disease Pythium [...]

2011 Vermicomposting Conference in Las Vegas

February 26, 2011 // 1 Comment

NC State University’s 11th Annual Vermiculture Conference | Las Vegas, Nevada | University of Nevada-Las Vegas | May 26-27, 2011 North America’s only training on [...]

Worm Compost Shown to Reduce Disease, Increase Yield

February 16, 2011 // 0 Comments

This entry has moved, please visit the revised post at: https://beginningfarmers.org/vermicompost-is-far-more-than-a-soil-enhancer/ Greens grown without/with vermicompost [...]